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PDJane

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4. No, we aren't.

Reply to Bluenorthwest (Reply #3)

Tue May 7, 2013, 09:57 AM

May 2013

My son did learn about the residential schools in high school; I didn't until university. I also learned about mineral rights and the pollution of things like mining and paper mills in my teens, and my son was, again, taught in high school.

We still treat the First Nations peoples abominably, and have a slap from the UN to prove it. Idle no More is gaining public support, but the whole thing is unlikely to change until Harper is out of office. We have our own home-grown religious right neo-cons, and one managed to get into office.

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Why is Obama withholding secret torture report from Americans? [View all] unhappycamper May 2013 OP

i guess he thinks the american people does not deserve to know the truth. madrchsod May 2013 #1

Frankly, that's been happening for decades if not centuries. PDJane May 2013 #2

Ah, but Canada is honest about how they treat and treated the Innu and other tribes? Bluenorthwest May 2013 #3

No, we aren't. PDJane May 2013 #4